Since first posting a query about Philip Lewis (1751- 1835) to the PA-Old Chester list less than a month ago, I've received a great deal of information thanks to Sandra, Diana and Mal. I also got wonderful help from a kind soul at the Chester archives who sent me the following from the deed index--and I have these deeds on order. Joseph Rogers to Philip Lewis, 1775, deed Bk. V:96 Philip Lewis Senior to Philip Lewis, 1775, deed bk. V:107 Philip Lewis Junior to John John, 1777, C2:118. Philip Lewis Junior to John John, 1777, T2:526 I am now convinced that the Ohio family history that said Philip's father was an Enoch was wrong (I've suspected as much all along) and that his father was actually Philip Lewis Sr. who lived in Vincent twp from at least 1756 (my first record--membership in a militia company from Vincent and Pikeland). There is an Enoch associated with the family, but I think he was probably a brother to Philip Jr. Philip Sr. was an inmate in Vincent 1765-66 and paid taxes on land in Vincent 1769 and 1771. Philip Lewis Jr. appears to be the man on 80 acres in East Nantmeal, 1771, 1774. I've found Joseph Rogers on Vincent twp tax rolls from the 1720s and additional info on him in various locations--but does anyone know who this John John was? Thanks to several of you, it is now clear that this Lewis family was Baptist. Philip, Enoch, Catherine, a Martha and an Ann Lewis are listed as members of the Great Valley Church before 1770, and Catherine and Enoch became members of Vincent Baptist Church 1771. What records--other than the membership lists and cemetery lists--are available for these two Baptist churches? I've found bits and pieces of the records in Chester archives and some filmed by LDS, but most of those are just the lists (not always in agreement) and a brief history of the churches. Does anyone else have a Baptist Lewis family from either of the two? I have come across references to a David Lewis as a member and a Rees Lewis is on the rolls of one of the histories. I am also now completely convinced that this Lewis family in Chester is the same family I found in Westmoreland/Washington/Fayette counties after 1782. Both Philip Sr. and Jr. were on Westmoreland tax rolls, and in 1785, Catherine Lewis joined the Mt. Moriah Baptist Church in Fayette with a letter of dismissal from the Vincent Church. It is my guess that Catherine was the wife of Philip Sr. and it's obvious she was the good Baptist--so perhaps the daughter of another member of the Great Valley church. The names of both church memberships are consistently Welsh with the most common being Phillips, Jenkins, Thomas, Wells, Davis. I am particularly interested in Thomas because according to the family history, Philip Lewis' first wife (married ca. 1773) was an Elizabeth Wasson/Wason--the widow Thomas. There is an Elizabeth Thomas (listed next to a Thomas Thomas) who transferred membership from Great Valley to Vincent in 1771. Why has that wonderful web site that had ALL the Pennsylvania archives gone away???? Moving right along.... Karen Lewis Dale